Nothing Left To Lose - Musique

Frogtoon Musique - Informations sur la chanson: Nothing Left To Lose

Everything-But-The-Girl - Fuse

Twenty-Four Years Since Everything But The Girl Put Out Their Last Album 1999’s Temperamental Y2K Styles Are In Vogue Once Again. An Echo Of That Bygone Era Runs Through The Garage-Y Skip And Oscillating Bassline Of “Nothing Left To Lose ” The First Single From The Duo’s Forthcoming Album Fuse But The Song Never Sounds Retro For Retro’s Sake Rhythmically Texturally And Tonally It’s Got Real Heft As Well As A Kind Of Lived-In Ease That’s Missing From A Lot Of Contemporary Acts Tackling Similar Inspirations. The Partnership Of Tracey Thorn And Ben Watt EBTG Were Never Strictly A Dance Band Though Their Remixes Placed Them At The Center Of Club Culture Rooted In Folk And Indie Pop And Committed To Character-Driven Songwriting They Structured Even Their Floor-Fillers Around Real Pathos. Here You Can Hear Them Continue To Straddle That Divide—one Foot In And One Foot Out Part Banger And Part Ballad. There’s A Clear Continuum Between Albums Like Walking Wounded And This New Song Though Thorn’s Voice Sounds Deeper Wiser And Sadder Than It Did In 1999 As She Sings Stark Couplets Of Unrequited Yearning “I Need A Thicker Skin/The Pain Keeps Getting In… I’m Here At Your Door/And I’ve Been Here Before” . But She Saves The Heaviest Sentiment—a Line That Watt Wrote—for Last Tweaking The Theme To Fit Contemporary Anxieties “Kiss Me While The World Decays/Kiss Me While The Music Plays.” It’s A Refrain Born Of Both Desolate Yearning And Desperate Hope Channeling The Kind Of Sentimental Abandon That Has Long Made Everything But The Girl So Singular.